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How to Minimise Google Data Collection to Protect Privacy
- Every search you make, every location you visit, and every email you send or receive on Gmail leaves a digital footprint.
- You can limit Google data collection by being selective of what you share and declining invitations to share more.
- You can use Google's tools against Google, such as using Incognito Mode when you want to keep those searches under wraps.
- Audit third-party apps and remove permissions for anything you are no longer using or don't find trustworthy.
- Google provides different utilities to control your privacy such as My Activity, Privacy Checkup, and Google Takeout.
- Google's data collection leads to potential risks of data breaches, profiling, and loss of control over one's digital identity.
- Regularly going through your privacy settings and changing them according to what makes you comfortable can protect your privacy.
- Being private is not about returning to a pre-digital world but about owning our choices and drawing the line in the sand.
- Whenever you hesitate between clicking “accept” and going over which data you have shared, you do something more than protect your privacy: You take control.
- Google might be watching but you should let it see only some things, and step by step, you can secure your data.
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